{"id":176546,"date":"2022-07-16T08:03:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T08:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-take-care-of-a-pet-spider\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T08:03:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T08:03:32","slug":"how-do-you-take-care-of-a-pet-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-take-care-of-a-pet-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you take care of a pet spider?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy counter-decimal ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-take-care-of-a-pet-spider\/#How_do_you_take_care_of_a_pet_spider\" title=\"How do you take care of a pet spider?\">How do you take care of a pet spider?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-take-care-of-a-pet-spider\/#What_do_u_feed_pet_tarantula\" title=\"What do u feed pet tarantula?\">What do u feed pet tarantula?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-take-care-of-a-pet-spider\/#What_do_spiders_eat_and_drink\" title=\"What do spiders eat and drink?\">What do spiders eat and drink?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-take-care-of-a-pet-spider\/#How_do_you_take_care_of_a_small_spider\" title=\"How do you take care of a small spider?\">How do you take care of a small spider?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-take-care-of-a-pet-spider\/#Is_a_spider_a_good_pet\" title=\"Is a spider a good pet?\">Is a spider a good pet?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-take-care-of-a-pet-spider\/#Is_it_OK_to_feed_my_pet_tarantula\" title=\"Is it OK to feed my pet tarantula?\">Is it OK to feed my pet tarantula?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-take-care-of-a-pet-spider\/#How_often_do_pet_tarantulas_need_to_eat\" title=\"How often do pet tarantulas need to eat?\">How often do pet tarantulas need to eat?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/how-do-you-take-care-of-a-pet-spider\/#What_do_you_feed_a_tiny_tarantula\" title=\"What do you feed a tiny tarantula?\">What do you feed a tiny tarantula?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_do_you_take_care_of_a_pet_spider\"><\/span>How do you take care of a pet spider?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>If you have room, give your spider a small bowl of water.<\/b><\/p>\n<li>Spiders will also drink the water off of damp webbing. But you need to make sure that your cage doesn&#8217;t become damp. Spiders do not thrive in humidity.<\/li>\n<li>Refill your spider&#8217;s water every couple of days, or more frequently, if you notice it is empty.<\/li>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_do_u_feed_pet_tarantula\"><\/span>What do u feed pet tarantula?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As carnivores, tarantulas need live food sources. The easiest food sources to offer are <b>gut-loaded insects, including crickets, mealworms, king worms, silkworms, dubia roaches, or horn worms. Tarantulas can also eat young vertebrate prey, such as pinky mice, but this source of food can be inherently messier.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_do_spiders_eat_and_drink\"><\/span>What do spiders eat and drink?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Some spiders feed on leaves either by digesting them with enzymes prior to ingestion (similar to prey) or piercing a leaf with their chelicerae and sucking out plant sap. Others, such as the vegetarian Bagheera kiplingi, drink nectar from nectaries found on plants or in their flowers.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_do_you_take_care_of_a_small_spider\"><\/span>How do you take care of a small spider?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>If you have room, give your spider a small bowl of water.<\/b><\/p>\n<li>Spiders will also drink the water off of damp webbing. But you need to make sure that your cage doesn&#8217;t become damp. Spiders do not thrive in humidity.<\/li>\n<li>Refill your spider&#8217;s water every couple of days, or more frequently, if you notice it is empty.<\/li>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_a_spider_a_good_pet\"><\/span>Is a spider a good pet?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Spiders can make great pets for any beginner. They tend to be easy to care for and are interesting to watch.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_it_OK_to_feed_my_pet_tarantula\"><\/span>Is it OK to feed my pet tarantula?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Tarantulas don&#8217;t need to be fed often, but that doesn&#8217;t mean caring for them is easy. Your tarantula eats live prey. This means you will be caring for a community of crickets as well as caring for a spider. Change your tarantula&#8217;s water daily, and clean any food remains from its cage after a day.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_often_do_pet_tarantulas_need_to_eat\"><\/span>How often do pet tarantulas need to eat?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Feed <b>juveniles daily, adults every other day. Since they are nocturnal, feeding should occur at night. Be sure that food is smaller than the tarantula. Remove any uneaten live food as it may cause injury to a resting tarantula.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_do_you_feed_a_tiny_tarantula\"><\/span>What do you feed a tiny tarantula?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The truth is that most terrestrial and some arboreal tarantula babies will scavenge and <b>freshly killed larger crickets can be used as a food source. Some keepers just smash the head of the cricket, while others cut large crickets into a few pieces and offer each to an individual spider.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents How do you take care of a pet spider?What do u feed pet tarantula?What do spiders eat and drink?How do you take care of a small spider?Is a spider a good pet?Is it OK to feed my pet tarantula?How often do pet tarantulas need to eat?What do you feed a tiny tarantula?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[622],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pet-care"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}